Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 8/4/1997
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of August 4, 1997
- Syria taking more of Jordanian - Iraqi border trade
Syrian traders announced that most of Iraq’s border trade would shift from Jordan, Iraq’s biggest trading partner since the 1991 Gulf war, to Syria. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 8/8/1997 - Train crash in Iraq
About 50 people were killed when a passenger train crashed into a cargo train. Iraq, Local, 8/8/1997 - Izzat Ibrahim suffering from leukemia
The Iraqi vice president, Izzat Ibrahim, 68, will travel to Vienna from Jordan to receive more medical treatment at a specialized medical clinic. Iraq, Medicine, 8/7/1997 - Annan approves Iraqi food plan
Yesterday the secretary-general Kofi Annan yesterday approved an Iraqi distribution plan for food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. Iraq, Politics, 8/5/1997 - No problems with Iraqi government
An United Nations inspection team specialized in biological weapons concluded a visit to Baghdad and reported that there were no problems in dealing with the Iraqi government. Iraq, Military, 8/5/1997 - Iraqi-Iranian exchange for soldiers' remains
Iran turned over the bodies of 47 Iraqi soldiers and Iraq turned the remains of 15 Iranian soldiers at a ceremony on the border. Iraq, Military, 8/5/1997 - 2.5 million barrels per day of oil is the capability of Iraq now
"Iraq can from today, August 4, export 2.5 million barrels per day of crude oil,"Taha Hamoud the Iraqi under-secretary of oil said Iraq, Economics, 8/4/1997